Loretta Lynch for AG: Holder 2.0?

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n November 7, a White House press release announced her appointment for Attorney General. Succeding Eric Holder.  Calling her a “strong, independent prosecutor who twice led one of the most important US Attorney’s Offices in the country.”  Obama called her perhaps “the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters and drug lords and terrorists and still has the reputation for being a charming people person.”

Holder disgraced the office he held. Francis Boyle called him “a total disaster for the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Human Rights and the Rule of Law.”

White House press secretary Josh Earnest lied. Saying his “tenure (was) marked by historic gains in the areas of criminal justice reform and civil rights enforcement.”

Obama ludicrously called him another Ramsey Clark. His departure won’t change things. Expect business as usual to continue. Nothing suggests otherwise.  Before Lynch’s nomination, Boyle said he expects no positive change. It remains to be seen if he’s right.

Holder served monied interests. Subservient to wealth, power and privilege. Let Washington’s criminal class run things. Complicit with Wall Street and other corporate crooks.  Permitted unprecedented grand theft. Let corporate criminals escape accountability. Not a single culpable executive did prison time.  Authorized out-of-control Big Brother surveillance. Waged war on privacy rights. Due process. Press freedom. Whistleblowers exposing government wrongdoing.

He’s what Beltway insiders call a “sin eater,” said Law Professor Jonathan Turley. Shielding presidents and other top officials from accountability.  Nixon had Halderman and Ehrlichman. Oliver North and Bud McFarlane served Reagan. Bush had Cheney. The “ultimate sin eater,” said Turley.

Obama had “no better sin eater than Holder.” Absolving CIA torturers from prosecution. Supporting secretive/lawless/expanded warrantless surveillance. Rubber-stamping Obama’s Murder, Inc. agenda. His kill list policy. His war on dissidents. Anti-war protesters. Muslims. Latino immigrants. Lawyers defending clients Holder wanted convicted. Investigative journalists. Truth-tellers more aggressively than ever. According to Turley:

His tenure was “one of the most damaging periods in our history with a comprehensive attack on various constitutional rights and principles from free speech to the free press to international law.”

He “fought aggressively to expand the powers of the presidency and national security laws over countervailing individual rights and separation of powers principles.” He “personifie(d) an administration of unrivaled ambitions colliding with inescapable realities.”

“(I)t didn’t take long for (his) ‘Mr. Smith comes to Washington’ story to become ‘all the king’s men.’ ”  He was involved in militarizing state and local police forces. Wrongfully used the long outdated 1917 Espionage Act against Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea (aka Bradley) Manning.

Holder supported Obama’s right to attack other countries without Security Council or congressional authorization. War-profiteers thrived on his watch. Enforced a litany of police state laws. Shamelessly. Violating core rule of law principles. He defended entrapment. Occurring when law enforcement officials or agents induce, influence, or provoke crimes that otherwise wouldn’t be committed.

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Holder approved the practice publicly. Defending the indefensible. Calling entrapment an “essential law enforcement tool in uncovering and preventing terror attacks.”
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None occurred on US soil in recent memory. Repeat: None. 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism. So-called homegrown terrorist plots virtually don’t exist. Alleged ones are hatched. Fake. Big Lies.

Targeting numerous innocent victims. Falsely accusing them of crimes never committed. Railroading them on bogus charges. Imprisoning them unjustly.  Generating fear. Washington’s fake war on terror needs public support. Orchestrated FBI stings entrap innocent victims. Familiar schemes repeat. Law and order don’t matter. Police state justice replaced them. Ends justify means. Expect business as usual under Lynch. Nothing suggests otherwise.

She’s currently US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Appointed in May 2010. Overseeing federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island. Her mother was a school librarian. Her father a Baptist minister. She’s a Harvard College and Law School grad.

Is a Neo-Con Cesspool

After Deans Clark and Kagan

I would not send my dog (there)

I like my dog

 

Nor my kids

Nor others’ kids

I like them too

 

To learn torture

And become torturers

 

To learn war crimes

And become war criminals

 

To learn kangaroo courts

And become kangaroos

 

To learn drones

And become droners

 

To learn murder

And become murderers

 

To learn assassinations

And become assassins

 

To trash the Constitution

And International Law

Human Rights too

 

This is not the HLS

I entered

In 1971

A Pox upon their House

– 98, she was Long Island Office Chief. After serving as District Deputy Head of General Crimes as well as Intake and Arraignments. She prosecuted white collar crimes and corruption cases. Was lead prosecutor in trials involving public corruption allegations in Brookhaven, Long Island.

Was a United States v. Volpe trial team member. Involving New York police sexually assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. Clinton appointed her US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Serving from 1999 to 2001.

She was a member of his Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Served as White House Crime Subcommittee Co-Chair.  Was a Criminal Trial Advocacy Program DOJ instructor. Served as St. John’s University School of Law Adjunct Professor.

From 2003 – 2005, she was a Wall Street controlled New York Federal Reserve Bank of New York board member. The mother bank most complicit with its member bank crooks. Before becoming US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in May 2010, she was a Hogan & Hartson LLP partner.

New York based. A member of its litigation group. Focusing on commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and corporate compliance issues. At the time, serving as Special Counsel for the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

It defined propaganda and other forms of incitement to commit genocidal mass killing as follows:

“Directly provoking the perpetrator(s) to commit genocide, whether through speeches, shouting or threats uttered in public places or at public gatherings, or through the sale or dissemination, offer for sale or display of written material or printed matter in public places or at public gatherings, or through the public display of placards or posters or through any other means of audiovisual communication.”

Like US-led NATO written or verbal communications. Justifying naked aggression. Mischaracterized as humanitarian intervention. Or responsibility to protect. Regurgitated by supportive scoundrel media propaganda. Misinformation. Other forms of deception.

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